Work holder



A. B. HENDERSON.

WORK HOLDER. APiLICATiON FILED APR. 28, 1921.

1,421,230. Patented June 27,132

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v ARTHUR B. HENDERSON, OR HURL EY, NEW} MEXICO.

WORK HOLDER.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. HENDER- soN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Hurley, in the county of Grant and tate of New Mexico, have invented a new and Improved Work Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a work holder such as is particularly adapted for use in connection with hand work, and aims primarily to provide a device of this character which shall be in the nature of a crochet guide.

It is well appreciated in connection with crocheting work, that considerable difliculty has been experienced in making a design, in that the operator usually experiences trouble in placing all parts of the design which should be aligned properly with respect to each other and the material being worked.

Furthermore this difiiculty is aggravated, incident to the fact that the goods being worked creases and folds so that all portions of the same adjacent the points being worked are invisible unless the operator continuously straightens the material.

With this in view my present invention aims to provide a guide particularly adapted for use in connection with crocheting work, and the primary object of this invention is that of constructing a guide by means of which even an amateur will be capable of properly aligning all parts of the design.

A further object of this invention is the construction of a device of the character stated which will retain the goods in such a manner that points adjacent those parts of the surface being worked upon will at all times be visible.

Further objects of my invention will appear in the annexed specification taken in connection with the drawings which latter present one practical embodiment of the same, and in which;

Figure 1 is a plan view of my device and showing the same in use.

Figure 2 is a sectional side view of the parts as illustrated in Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the device as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 2'3, 1922?.

Application filed. April 28,

1921. Serial No. 465,311.

In these views the reference numeral 5 indicates the goods to which the design 6 is being applied, and with which, as aforestated, difficulty has been ;experienced in properly aligning portions of the design, as well as retaining the goods in such a manner that all of the portions of the same adjacent the points being worked will be visible to the operator.

Referring now more particularly to the guideby means of which these results are accomplished it will be seen that the same includes a pair of bars 7 which are formed with longitudinally extending openings 8 the approaches of said openings being preferably inclined as has been indicated by the reference numeral 9 for a purpose hereinafter more fullyspecified.

The goods 5 is disposed between the bars 7 and is retained in this position by clamping the bars one to the other by means of wing nuts 10 co-operating with bolts ll, projecting through each of the bars.

The structure presented will obviously prevent any accidental movement on the part of the goods 5 with respect to the bars and it will be obvious, as has been illustrated in Figure 1 that the openings 8 will serve to at all times provide a guide by means of which the operator is incapable of working in other than a perfectly aligned position. Furthermore the inclined ap roaches 9 constitute a natural guide whic will serve to divert a carelessly presented needle towards the opening 8.

Furthermore by forming the bolts 11 with extended end portions 12 it will be appre ciated, as has been indicated in Figure 3 that I the entire device-may be rested upon a supporting surface 13 in which position it will be presented in such a manner that ready access may be had to those portions of the goods 5 which are to be worked upon.

Thus I have provided a guide particularly adapted for use in connection with crochet work, and which will obviously overcome the objections noted in the preamble, of this specification, it being also seen that an article constructed in accordance with my invention may be manufactured at a minimum of cost and Will present few parts thus reducing the danger of breakage 01* inoperativeness.

Obviously numerous modifications of structure might readily be resorted to with out in the least departing from the spirit of my invention, Which I claim as;

l. A woi'k liolder, including a bar formed With a longitudinal opening having in- 

